Sex-related suppression of reflex jaw muscle activity by peripheral morphine but not GABA.

abstract：:We examined whether 53 adult non-aphasic patients with either left (22) or right temporal lobe lesions (31) demonstrate dissociable patterns of hemispheric asymmetries in category-specific word fluency tasks. The patients were asked to articulate as many appropriate words as possible within 60 or 90 s in response to s...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jokeit H,Heger R,Ebner A,Markowitsch HJ

更新日期：1998-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotransmitter acetylcholine is synthesized by choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and transported into synaptic vesicles by the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT). Recently it has been reported that the entire coding region of VAChT mRNA is located in the first intron of the ChAT gene. In this study, ChAT...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Misawa H,Takahashi R,Deguchi T

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), one form of synaptic plasticity that may underlie learning and memory, is attenuated by blocking neuron activity of the basolateral amygdala (BLA). In the present study we investigated the amygdala noradrenergic or cholinergic contribution to hipp...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ikegaya Y,Nakanishi K,Saito H,Abe K

更新日期：1997-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Bengalese finches sing complex song sequences during courtship. To examine the female perception of sequence complexity, we tested female auditory processing with respect to sequential differences in the caudomedial nidopallium and caudomedial mesopallium. Repeated song presentations caused lower expression of th...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kato Y,Kato M,Hasegawa T,Okanoya K

更新日期：2010-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF), oncostatin M (OSM), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and interleukin-11 (IL-11) are structurally and functionally related cytokines. We compared their survival-promoting activities on embryonic chick and newborn rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurones. Human ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Simon R,Thier M,Krüttgen A,Rose-John S,Weiergräber O,Heinrich PC,Schröder JM,Weis J

更新日期：1995-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A bilateral spino-bulbo-spinal circuit conveys information from/to the male urogenital tract and perineal muscles. This is the first electrophysiological report of another descending pathway, one which conveys output from the medullary reticular formation (MRF) to activate postganglionic sympathetic fibers contained w...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Johnson RD,Hubscher CH

更新日期：2000-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined potential neuroprotective effects of HU-211, a synthetic non-psychotropic cannabinoid with non-competitive NMDA antagonist properties on neurones exposed to various excitotoxins in culture. HU-211 was found to protect neurones from NMDA and quisqualate-induced toxicity but not that produced ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Eshhar N,Striem S,Biegon A

更新日期：1993-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a matter of dispute whether or not recurrent epileptic seizures cause neuronal damage in the human brain. We approached this question by measuring the volumes of the amygdala, hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus with magnetic resonance imaging in 15 controls, 13 unmedicated patients with newly diagnosed epilep...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Saukkonen A,Kälviäinen R,Partanen K,Vainio P,Riekkinen P,Pitkänen A

更新日期：1994-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The terrestrial snail Helix lucorum is a promising model for molecular neurobiology since its central nervous system (CNS) is simple and contains many morphologically and functionally identified large neurones. Among these, the giant interneurones located in pleural and parietal ganglia are especially interesting beca...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bogdanov YD,Ovchinnikov DA,Balaban PM,Belyavsky AV

更新日期：1994-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to characterize hemodynamic activation patterns recruited when the participants viewed mixed social communicative messages during a common interpersonal exchange. Mixed messages were defined as conflicting sequences of biological motion and facial affect signals th...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Zucker NL,Green S,Morris JP,Kragel P,Pelphrey KA,Bulik CM,LaBar KS

更新日期：2011-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:GPR39, an orphan G protein-coupled receptor, has been recently identified as the receptor for the bioactive peptide obestatin. Obestatin is secreted from the stomach and acts as an anti-appetite hormone. This activity is induced whether obestatin is administered intraperitoneally or intracerebroventricularly. GPR39 is...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jackson VR,Nothacker HP,Civelli O

更新日期：2006-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the phonological influences on the lexicosemantic process with a strong orthographic constraint, we used kanji (morphogram) homophone words and measured, using magnetoencephalography, the neural activities during the silent reading of prime-target pairs. The primes were phonologically the same as or dif...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wei Q,Ihara A,Hayakawa T,Murata T,Matsumoto E,Fujimaki N

更新日期：2007-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess effects of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) in the brain excluding the hypothalamus, the effects of GLP-1 (7-36) amide, a naturally produced active fragment, on the electroencephalogram and hippocampal single unit activities of anesthetized male Wistar rats were examined. I.c.v. injection of GLP-1 (7...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Oka JI,Goto N,Kameyama T

更新日期：1999-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A unilateral ibotenic acid lesion of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis in the rat, which is known to produce a reduction in cortical choline acetyltransferase activity and acetylcholine release, produces a decrease of 125I-alpha-bungarotoxin and 125I-kappa-bungarotoxin binding sites in the frontoparietal cortex of t...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Sugaya K,Downen M,Giacobini E

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian TIMELESS (TIM) was identified due to its sequence similarity to Drosophila TIM, an essential circadian clock protein in flies. Published literature is inconsistent regarding the rhythmic expression of mammalian Tim, the interaction of the TIM protein with other clock proteins and its role in regulating clock...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Gotter AL

更新日期：2006-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-pulse unilateral electrical stimulation of either the amygdala or the inferior colliculus elicited startle-like responses in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats. EMG responses to intracranial stimulation were recorded from the anterior biceps femoris muscles. The EMG responses were generally enhanced following un...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lin C,Wan X,Zhao W,Ma C,Ma C,Gao Y,Zhou Y,Yeomans JS,Li L

更新日期：2002-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of thyroid hormone (TH) deficiency on the expression of neurofilament (NF) proteins and their intracellular distribution has been examined in primary cultures of neurons from embryonic rat cerebra. Northern blot analysis showed that in TH-deficient (THdef) neurons, the expression of all three NF mRNAs (NF-L...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Rahaman SO,Ghosh S,Mandal SK,Sarkar PK

更新日期：2000-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first assessment of motion vision in childhood autism. Postural reactivity to visually perceived motion was measured in five autistic children and 12 normal controls of the same chronological age. Anteroposterior as well as total body sway occurring on a force platform in response to movements in the vi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Gepner B,Mestre D,Masson G,de Schonen S

更新日期：1995-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to examine how intention to learn and explicit knowledge in sequence learning are reflected in event-related potentials. Participants responded to numerals presented in a repeating order, which were replaced infrequently by deviant numerals. The participants were given incidental or int...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Miyawaki K,Sato A,Yasuda A,Kumano H,Kuboki T

更新日期：2005-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia or global ischemia causes rapid loss of consciousness and a sudden increase in spontaneous transmitter release suggesting that coordinated synaptic activity is impaired. Gamma oscillations (30-100 Hz) are thought to provide for binding of parallel processed information in the brain, contributing to cognition a...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Fano S,Behrens CJ,Heinemann U

更新日期：2007-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Rap1A, first identified as a suppressor of transformed phenotype induced by an activated ras oncogene, is abundantly expressed in the brain. Its neurophysiological function, however, is poorly understood. When an activated Rap1A mutant (Rap1-12V) or a dominant negative H-Ras mutant (Ras-17N) was expressed in CA1 neuro...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Imamura Y,Matsumoto N,Kondo S,Kitayama H,Noda M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) in 2-month-old infants in two different states of alertness: awake and asleep. Syllables varying in vowel duration (long vs short) were presented in an oddball paradigm, known to elicit a mismatch brain response. ERPs of both groups showed a mismatch response reflected in a ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Friederici AD,Friedrich M,Weber C

更新日期：2002-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies have shown that Panax notoginseng saponins (PNS) play a protective role in learning dysfunction of Alzheimer's disease, inhibit the deposition of Aβ1-40 and Aβ1-42, and reduce the content of App in the brain of SAMP8. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of PNS on α, β, and γ secreta...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Huang J,Wu D,Wang J,Li F,Lu L,Gao Y,Zhong Z

更新日期：2014-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to ascertain whether pyrethroid insecticides could influence the vesicular transport of the excitatory amino acid glutamate. The incubation of rat cortical synaptic vesicles with resmethrin and permethrin, consistently stimulated both ATP-dependent and -independent uptake of [3H]glutamate, while not evoking d...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vaccari A,Ruiu S,Mocci I,Saba P

更新日期：1998-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to reveal a potential effect of emotion on cognitive control in the implicit memory task with emotionally neutral and unpleasant words in healthy controls and patients with schizophrenia using a 3.0 T functional MRI (fMRI). A total of 15 patients with schizophrenia and 15 healthy controls und...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kim GW,Yang JC,Jeong GW

更新日期：2015-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoradiographic distribution of Ca(2+)-sensitive high- and low-affinity binding sites for the N-type calcium channel ligand, [125I]omega-conotoxin GVIA, has been examined in rat brain. Both classes of sites were rather evenly distributed, exhibiting their highest density in cell body rich layers, such as the pyra...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vandaele SF,Reader TA

更新日期：1994-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-latency ocular following responses in monkeys, induced by first- and second-order motion during a fixation task, were sensitive to stimulus size, retinal eccentricity and motion duration. Latency of eye movements was no different for first- or second-order motion and simply marked the occurrence of movement in t...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Benson PJ,Guo K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we found that musicians have significantly larger anterior corpus callosum (CC). In the current study, we intended to replicate and extend our previous results using a new and larger sample of gender-matched subjects (56 right-handed professional musicians and 56 age- and handedness-matched controls). We fo...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lee DJ,Chen Y,Schlaug G

更新日期：2003-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the combined effect of high glucose and decreased Na+/K+-pump activity, a condition which closely mimics the diabetic state, on nerve ionic currents, changes in action potential and membrane current induced by high glucose in the presence of ouabain were investigated using voltage clamp analysis in rat single ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Takigawa T,Yasuda H,Terada M,Maeda K,Haneda M,Kashiwagi A,Kitasato H,Kikkawa R

更新日期：2000-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-cell recordings in voltage-clamp mode were performed on acutely isolated neurones from rat neocortex and neostriatum to examine the effects of the anticonvulsant phenytoin on a non-inactivating (persistent) Na+ current (INaP). INaP was chosen because it enhances neuronal excitability near firing threshold, which...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Chao TI,Alzheimer C

更新日期：1995-09-11 00:00:00